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Research Databases
For your convenience, we have prepared lists of suggested databases for specific subjects, which you can choose from the drop-down menu below:
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Academic Search Premier
A multi-disciplinary database with full text for more than 4,700 publications; more than 3,600 are peer-reviewed journals. Coverage is from 1975.
African American Song
A fully searchable collection of recordings covering jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression.
Agricola
Bibliographic records (journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports) from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage is from 1970.
American Song
A history database that allows you to hear and feel the music from America's past: songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys, as well as songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more.
ArticleFirst
Contains citations to articles on the table of contents pages of journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Use this database to place an Interlibrary Loan for an article.
Arts in Psychotherapy
This journal publishes peer-reviewed articles (including illustrations) by art, dance/movement, drama, music, and poetry psychotherapists, as well as psychiatrists, psychologists and creative arts therapists, that reflect the theory and practice of these disciplines.
Association of Transpersonal Psychology Members Only Resources
Access to archives of all 35 years of the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, as well as audio archives of ATP conference presentations and a members networking directory.
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Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic Edition
Provides access to more than 100 full text journals covering such disciplines as clinical medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pre-clinical sciences and the health care system.
Buddhist Studies Review
Peer-reviewed articles on any aspect of Buddhism, covering the different cultural areas where Buddhism exists or has existed (in South, Southeast, Central and East Asia); historical and contemporary aspects (including developments in 'Western' Buddhism); theoretical, practical and methodological issues; textual, linguistic, archaeological and art-historical studies; and different disciplinary approaches to the subject (e.g. Archaeology, Art History, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Comparative Religion, Law, Oriental Studies, Philosophy, Philology, Psychology, Religious Studies, Theology).
Business Source Premier
Full text for more than 7,400 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for nearly 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage varies.
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CDRI: Digital Resources for the Study of Religion
The CDRI database provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography.
Classical Music Library
A fully searchable collection of tens of thousands of distinguished classical recordings, cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information. The recordings range from Medieval to contemporary, from choral works to symphonies, operas, and the avant-garde.
Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection
Ongoing collaborative project by the Collaborative Digitization Program, the Colorado State Library and the Colorado Historical Society creating a statewide historic newspaper database. Includes 44 newspapers dating from 1859 to 1880 .
CompPile
"An ongoing inventory of publications in post-secondary composition, rhetoric, ESL, and technical writing: 1939-1999."
Consumer Health Complete
A comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc. Full text (PDF) information dates as far back as 1946.
Corporate ResourceNet
Contains full-text articles from over 1,200 quality magazines and journals and contains 1,100 primary source documents.
Cross-Cultural Research: The Journal of Comparative Social Science
Examines topics that span societies, nations and cultures, providing strategies for the systematic testing of theories about human society and behaviour. Research reports, review articles, methodological studies, bibliographies and discussion pieces. Full text available from February 1999 to present.
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
"This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 3490 journals in the directory. Currently 1186 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 190,907 articles are included in the DOAJ service. " -- July 11, 2008
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EBSCOhost EJS - Electronic Journals Service
Full-text of selected journals.
ERIC
Covers all aspects of education and educational research; includes both abstracts of published and unpublished sources.
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Fuente Academica
Full text coverage for more than 200 scholarly Spanish language journals.
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GPO
Index to publications of the US government. Includes references to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more. Coverage is from 1976.
GreenFILE
A bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns.
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Handbook of Latin American Studies(HLAS)
"Bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars ...Alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources."
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Full text of 130 full text health journals, 130 health reference books, a medical dictionary, patient education info, and more.
History Reference Center
A comprehensive full text history reference database designed for undergraduate research. The database features full text for more than 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers.
Human Rights Watch Publications
Selected full-text of reports on human rights violations and conditions around the world. Reports cover countries and specific issues. Coverage is 1990 to present.
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International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text
The International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance represents the most comprehensive multicultural and inter-disciplinary research tool available to theater students, educators and professionals. Includes full text for 100 titles.
International Relations & Security Network
Full-text materials on international relations, area studies, international business, security and military studies, comparative studies, and human rights.
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JSTOR: Arts & Sciences III Collection
Full-text of journals in languages and literature, as well as essential titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture. There are 150 titles in this collection.
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Literary Reference Center
A comprehensive full-text database that provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It combines information from major respected reference works, books, and literary journals, as well as original content.
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MLA Bibliography
A bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.7 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.
MedicLatina
Access to full text for more than 140 peer-reviewed Spanish-language medical journals.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
This database contains descriptive information and critical reviews of new and revised psychological test instruments from the 9th-15th editions of the printed Mental Measurements Yearbook. Covers more than 2,200 commercially-available tests in categories such as personality, developmental, behavioral assessment, neuropsychology, achievement, intelligence and aptitude, and education.
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netLibrary
Collection of electronic books (full-text online).
Newspaper Source
Selected full text from 25 national and 260 regional US newspapers including the Denver Post, Greeley Tribune and Pueblo Chieftain, and transcripts from TV and radio news.
NoveList
A readers' advisory service that provides access to 155,000 fiction titles and offers a wide range of feature content including author read-alikes, book discussion guides, reading lists and more.
Nursing and Allied Health Collection: Basic Edition
Provides full text access to nearly 100 journals covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines.
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Oxford English Dictionary Online
Provides authoritative definitions of over 500,000 words; traces the usage of words from their first recorded occurrence to the modern period through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international language sources; offers the best in etymological analysis and detailed listings of variant spellings; uses the International Phonetic Alphabet to show pronunciation.
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Professional Development Collection
Full text of 520 professional education journals and over 200 educational reports.
PsycARTICLES
Full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber.
PsycINFO
Contains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations in the field of psychology. Coverage is from the 1880s. Database links to full-text in other EBSCO databases.
Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress (PILOTS) Database
Index to the worldwide scientific literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events. Includes citations and abstracts to journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and government documents relevant to PTSD and other forms of traumatic stress.
PubMed
"Includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals."
PubMed Central
U.S. National Library of Medicine's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
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RAMBI: The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
"Selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel."
RAND Abstracts
Database of RAND reports related to social and public policy, international policy, global security, military, terrorism, and more. Some full-text online.
Regional Business News
Full text coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Research in Ministry
Indexes and abstracts for project reports and theses from more than 50 Doctor of Ministry and Doctor of Missiology programs accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada.
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Science Reference Center
Contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.
Smithsonian Global Sound
A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.
SocINDEX with Full Text
Comprehensive sociology research database. Features more than 1,600,000 records and full text for 253 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers.
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TopicSearch
Over 139,800 articles on current events topics like aging, crime, drugs, energy, health, human rights and world affairs, from over 4,800 sources, with 1,650 full text periodicals.
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Violence Literature Database (VioLit)
Violence-related research literature database with abstracts and reference information. Compiled by the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at University of Colorado at Boulder.
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WorldCat
Catalog of books and other materials held by libraries worldwide. Use this database to place an Interlibrary Loan for a book.
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